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Head to head · Identity verification · October 2026 research run

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) vs Jumio

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against Jumio's 55 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jumio leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do identity verification.

Best identity and business verification APIs for AI agents · All 119 verification comparisons

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)Onfido Ltd (Entrust) · HTTP API B62.1/100#472 of 1076 JumioJumio Corporation · HTTP API C55/100#713 of 1076

Which one, for what

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) B

Best for A company already contracted with Entrust that wants an agent to create applicants, start workflow runs and read reports through typed libraries and a public spec.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 70 against 65
  • Schema & documentation, 84 against 73
  • Agent ergonomics, 65 against 45
  • Payments & pricing, 20 against 0
  • Transparency & trust, 70 against 60

Watch for

entrust.com answered 403 to every request, so the terms, privacy notice, pricing page and security.txt weren't read

Jumio C

Best for An enterprise with a Jumio contract that wants document, selfie and liveness checks, watchlist screening and Latin American, Thai and Australian database checks behind OpenAPI-described endpoints.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 63 against 58
  • Maintenance & community, 75 against 58

Watch for

No public price, free tier or trial. OAuth2 and workflow keys are activated by a Jumio account manager

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runEntrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)JumioEdge
Reliability16%207065Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +5
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28473Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +11
Agent ergonomics13%16.26545Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +20
Security & auth14%17.55863Jumio +5
Payments & pricing10%12.5200Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +20
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85875Jumio +17
Transparency & trust7%8.87060Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) +10
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 62.1/100C 55/100

Facts side by side

FactEntrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)Jumio
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorOnfido Ltd (Entrust)Jumio Corporation
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Entrust's terms. The OpenAPI spec and the server libraries (onfido-java, onfido-node, onfido-php, onfido-python, onfido-ruby) are MITProprietary service. No public service agreement was found. The @jumio/websdk npm package is marked UNLICENSED
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-08-312026-09-28
Terms last updatedcouldn't be readno document linked
Privacy policy last updated2026-08-04
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readyes
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be read
Popularity59k npm/wk, 27k PyPI/wk72 stars, 2.1k npm/wk

Verdicts

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)

The v3.6 API has a public MIT OpenAPI file, server libraries in five languages, OAuth client credentials with scopes and an 18-month deprecation notice. Entrust's own site answered 403, so terms, privacy notice, pricing and security.txt weren't read. There is no idempotency key, and live tokens need a Dashboard account with billing details.

Jumio

Five OpenAPI 3.0 files, an llms.txt index and OAuth2 clients limited to initiating or to retrieving and deleting make the API readable and containable. Access starts with an account manager, with no public price, trial or service agreement, and the status page shows four processing degradations and a 35-minute Singapore outage between 14 August and 2 October 2026.

Before you call either

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido)

  1. Use the regional host for the account (api.eu, api.us or api.ca.onfido.com/v3.6). v3.6 has no default region
  2. Prefer an OAuth client with only the scopes the task needs over a live API token, and refresh the 60-minute access token
  3. Stay under 400 requests a minute live and 120 in sandbox, and back off on a 429 rate_limit error
  4. Check before retrying a POST. There is no idempotency key, so a retry can create a second applicant or check
  5. Treat webhook events as duplicates or out of order, and verify X-SHA2-Signature over the raw body

Jumio

  1. Use the host for the tenant's region (amer-1, emea-1 or apac-1). Tokens come from auth.<region>.jumio.ai/oauth2/token with the client ID and secret as Basic credentials
  2. Reuse the bearer token for its 60 minutes. Token requests are limited to 10 a second and new transactions to 1 a second per tenant
  3. Send a User-Agent header on every call. The Account API marks it required
  4. Don't blindly retry POST /api/v1/accounts. Each call creates an account and a transaction, and no idempotency key exists
  5. Wait for the callback or poll the status endpoint until PROCESSED before retrieving. Jumio's retry schedule starts at 40 seconds and stops after 940

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) or Jumio?

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against Jumio's 55 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jumio leads on security & auth and maintenance & community.

Do Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) and Jumio need an API key?

Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Jumio uses an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido) and Jumio without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Entrust Identity Verification (formerly Onfido). No hosted endpoint is listed for Jumio.

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